There are about More Greetings. Our alphabet all derived from letters of the English alphabet. Learning tips: Only learn words according to your interest. With his astonishing 18 majors and 19 runner-up finishes , Nicklaus dominated golf for more than two decades. He has gone on to have a successful career in the course-design business. Nick turned pro in and has roughly forty professional wins under his belt.
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Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. The vowels can all be lengthened. Thus their duration, the time they are pronounced, is doubled. Attention: The macron is not a stress. That means that a vowel with a macron is doubled in duration but it is not stressed as well. The macron never exists at the penultimate, unless if there is a macron on the ultimate too. All Tongan words are stressed on the penultimate.
The only exception is if there is a macron on the ultimate. Then the stress falls on the ultimate ex. When the words are preceded by some specific articles, adjectives and tense signs their intonation changes and the stress falls on the ultimate. We will mention that when we will talk about these words.
We will say more about these later also. When we have macrons on both the penultimate and the ultimate syllables, the stress falls on the ultimate. The letter " ng " is pronounced like in " sing ", " singer " and not like in " finger ". Thus there is only one single sound produced, not a compound one n-g. The sound comes from deep in the throat. It is not a totally new sound though. We all execute a glottal stop when we exclaim " Uh uh! The grunting sensation that comes between those two words is the glottal stop.
When one has to say " I am fine, thanks, how are you? Koe is a postponed pron. That is all for the first lesson. It was a bit long because we had to mention everything about pronunciation.
As you have noticed the verbs "to go" and "to come" have different forms for the singular persons and the plural persons. We could call these verbs "irregular" if this term can apply in Polynesian languages. It is impossible to find an exact equivalent in English. Other meanings include "merely, exactly, however, after all, nevertheless". Sometimes it is used indiscriminately, usually after the verb, and it should be untranslatable.
Every verb in Tongan is used also as the singular imperative form without any changes. Thus we have:. We use ta when two persons are included to the action which will take place and tau when the persons are three or more:. Ta and tau are preposed pronominal pronouns about which we will start talking in the next lesson.
In the next lesson I will start adding some exercises in the lessons. Thus, the word " ou " is pronounced oh-oo. We learned in the previous lesson the verb ako — to study , to go to school.
Here we see that with the word fale — house in front of it we form the word " school ", that is " house of studying ". Thus we have " house of eating " kitchen , " house of goods " shop koloa - goods etc. In Tongan there are only four tenses. Now we will learn the present tense. In Tongan a verb never changes.
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